puddin elimination theory: Black, Paolo, Bransen, Gaghan, Weaver, Aiello, Schroeder, Godlewski, Rogers, Linz episode 2 has no pitstop; double leg; similar to TAR6 Hungarian leg17. this is the Bransen family; so this scene is somewhere in episode 3-4now if we can find the date of the Little League World Series, we might narrow everything down to what date and what state.

edit: the above looks like a football stadium and not a baseball stadium

I thought someone already said this but I don’t see it up yet: # 18 is Old Faithful

I wonder if they archived these webcam shots?

And yes, I have been on a driving trip in Southern Utah and those formations look very familiar. But it is basically in the area of the Grand Canyon because there is stuff like that for miles and miles (hours and hours). Think of an area like New Jersey.

I’m trying to help out here. Not that I need recognition but I verified the Natchez riverboat and the bridge early on in this thread and located similar balloons in Utah. I started to wonder if my posts are being seen. Anyway, some comments.

Since we know they are going to New Orleans #17 could be the N.O. Superdome which I am familiar with. There is a mid-america gap so if they head out west after N.O. they may fly to Salt Lake City (Park City, Utah is 45 min. east of the SLC airport where the balloons are). The N.O. airport hardly flys anywhere but Houston, Dallas and Atlanta but it does have some Delta flights directly to Salt Lake City (we just flew there in August).

The canyons of pic #3 could be Sedona but I think it is probably Southern Utah (Canyonlands, Arches, Bryce Canyon National Park) since they are much closer to where they balloon.

edit: #17 could also be Talladega Superspeedway since Talladega was listed as a location. Hubby was born and raised there so I hope to see pics he can help with.

I see banzai gave you credit supsandalee |#' , thats why I asked him to do it so that noone was left out .. he's the man :yaya: !I started a new thread just for the intro caps and thought we could discuss them in this thread .

Yes thanks banzai! ,,>( I really wasn't looking for my name in a credit but was wondering if my post were being seen.

Ok, #10 has really been bugging me. It's a decent size downtown but not New Orleans. The bridge in the distance (perhaps a train bridge) means it can't be the Mississippi river or any other one that has large ships go down it.

If they do go to New Orleans, wouldn't this give the Schroeder Family an unfair advantage? I assume the trip itinerary has been worked out before the final teams have been selected.

Very much so and I don't understand why they would select a team from N.O. if they knew they were going there. I don't know what cities AR went to for auditions but there was a lot of advertisement and a big turnout for the auditions here in Baton Rouge. I can only guess thats why we have two Louisiana teams in the race. FYI, the audtions here were held on March 5th.

anyone want to pick through this ? if you notice the Panama teams might just be in the green " Latin America " uniforms so as Chateau has posted the photo of the little leaguers are probably in Panama ..to bad Panama newspapers are not all that .

Exactly Banzai .. unless of course they were in some training camp in July but that would be Williamsport and of course we don't see any signs of that in the promo.. besides the racers wouldn't have enough time to travel out of the way ( a few hours drive ).

That certainly is Monument Valley, Arizona which is well known as it was the site of many a western in the good old days when westerns were popular: John Ford made many a film here.

That's not the Alamo, and it does not look like an active church so I lean toward one of the reconstructed old missions found around Tucson, especially in the Turnacacori National Historic Park and places like Calabasas and San Bernardino but I can't find pictures of these spots